It’s a new year, and a new (old) episode of Hyouge Mono to blog. It was obvious that the chaos in the aftermath of Oda’s death would drive the next arc, and perhaps even be the main arc of the series (it’s easy to forget given the pace of […] Read more
One of the great LOLWUT series of 2011 returns with an OVA that lives up (down) to its own lofty standards. Let’s face it, Hozhizora was never going to win any prizes for its intellectual content and subtlety. Brain food it ain’t, but at its best the show could be […] Read more
How is it that a long-lost Adachi Mitsuru manuscript has been discovered and animated, and I wasn’t told?? I certainly didn’t see that coming. What a dramatic – literally and figuratively – turn from the premiere. I was already of two minds about this series and of the opinion that […] Read more
Team Tacihi is still accepting new members… Well, that was a jaw-dropping, leg-twitching, GAR-packed, heart-pounding epic of an episode if ever I saw one. Frankly, it pretty much out-shounened any shounen series for ages. Every time I hear someone complaining about how there haven’t been any good shounen sports anime […] Read more
I love this show – I should, because I’ve been clamoring for it for or one like it for years – but I can already tell it’s going to be a tough one to blog… Comedies, as a general rule, are harder to blog than dramatic series to begin with. […] Read more
If the idea of Toradora crossed with Onegai Teacher with a hint of AnoHana sounds good to you, I suspect you’re going to love Ano Natsu. Some series are hard to talk about without allusions to other series, but I don’t attach a stigma to that as some might. Fact […] Read more
As great as the first two episodes of season four have been – especially the second – this week’s was as warm and comfortable as your favorite down comforter on a cold winter’s night. I’ll admit my bias – this is the side of Natsume Yuujinchou I love best, though […] Read more
I’m going to try not to gush over this series, but right now that isn’t going to be easy. You won’t hear me talk about sound directors much when discussing an anime – perhaps not often enough. Fact is, it isn’t a role that you think about much – the […] Read more
In Xanadu, a stately pleasure dome did Kublai Khan decree… Gundam AGE – 14 I guess part of the fun of being a GUNDAM fan is knowing exactly what’s coming, and waiting for it to happen. But that didn’t lessen the sadness for me one bit. Ah Yurin, sweet, Yurin […] Read more
It’s good to be the King. Apart from the whole crossbow bolt in the thigh thing… This is one of those Mirai Nikki episodes that’s a little hard to talk about, because most of it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense yet and that’s actually on purpose. While I won’t try […] Read more